Amnesty International/Ames Group 40 – The International Criminal Court: Is Global Justice Possible?
Douglass Cassel
Saturday, 08 Dec 2001 at 2:00 pm – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Douglass Cassel is Director of the Center for International Human Rights and Clinical Associate Professor at Northwestern University School of Law. He is also President of the Due Process of Law Foundation, based in Washington, D.C., and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas, to which he was elected by the Organization of American States. He has served as consultant on human rights to the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the United States Department of State and the Ford Foundation. He has lectured in universities and academic institutions in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and his articles have been published nationally and internationally in English and Spanish. His weekly commentary on human rights is broadcast on Chicago Public Radio and published in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.
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